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I am an agri-bioenergy-environmental modeller and inquiries are welcome to discuss collaborations as a co-author or co-investigator.

I am a Supergen Bioenergy research fellow and manage the SUMMER project, modelling the crop yield and upscaling potential for a seed-propogated miscanfor hybrid which also involves crop measurements and grower questionnaires. This links with Aberystwyth's GRACE project. I administer the development of the global MiscanFor model with Dr Astley Hastings for bioenergy crop growth, environmental effects and energy production. I have modified the model to use at two spatial scales under climate scenarios, and extended the model from its previous version, with modified water restriction on growth, two alternate evapo-transpiration modules, development of a soil carbon sequestration-decomposition procedure, and enhanced visual output. 

I am also a named researcher on a large UKRI project for four-and-a-half years, in which researchers at Aberystwyth’s Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) will lead a consortium of partners to develop biomass crops.

Previously, I won an industrial fellowship, working with the Terravesta bioenergy company and its growers to refine crop yield in commerical settings. This was a useful collaboratiuon which continues.

Formerly, I was an agri-environmental modeller in sustainable grassland and nutrient cycling working at Rothamsted Research for 9.5 years, and previously to that I worked in Canadian agriculture to model water resources and drought occurrence. I use agri-systems models to provide future scenarios under different management systems or climate changes. 

Experience

Research Fellow: Modeller of carbon cycling & bioenergy crops University of Aberdeen December 2017 – Present

Research Scientist: Agri-Environmental Systems Modeller Rothamsted Research March 2008 – August 2017 (9 years 6 months)

Research Scientist: University of Lethbridge September 2006 – December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Climate Change Specialist: Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development; Irrigation Branch May 2004 – September 2006 (2 years 5 months)

Researcher University of Lethbridge  September 2003 – May 2004 (9 months)

Post-Doc & Term Research Scientist

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada October 1999 – September 2003 (4 years)